Welker and Talib became teammates for the second time when the Broncos signed Talib on Tuesday, and at Talib’s introductory press conference he said there are no hard feelings toward Welker, whom he first befriended when they played together in New England.

“Wes is a good friend of mine,” Talib said. “I watched the play 1,000 times and I can promise you, he didn’t do it on purpose.”

That’s a sharply different reaction than Belichick, who called Welker’s hit “deliberate” and said that Welker “wanted to take out Aqib.” Belichick viewed the hit as “one of the worst plays I’ve seen.”

But the NFL confirmed afterward that Welker’s hit on Talib was legal, and if Talib didn’t have a problem with it, it seems that Belichick is the only person who did.

Talib also said he was surprised to learn the Broncos were making him an aggressive offer in free agency, and expressed excitement that he’ll be a teammate of Peyton Manning’s, and playing for John Fox.

“Peyton is a great quarterback,” Talib said. “I had the opportunity to be on the other side a couple times last year. The opportunity to play with him, that offense, this defense, coach Fox, it was a surprise to me. A definite surprise. I can’t wait to get to work.”

Talib and Welker will enjoy working together in practice, where they won’t be putting any hard hits on each other.

Well of course he didn’t hurt him on purpose, getting hurt is however a byproduct of those types of plays though. The play was the play and Welker intended to do his play just like any player intends to do a play, and sometimes plays create contact and thus injuries.

If Welker said his intent was specifically geared towards causing an injury first and foremost and had nothing to do with football strategy, then that’s an entirely different thing, but that’s not the case at hand here. But that also has nothing to do with the problem as BB sees it. Intent existing or not, either you allow or tolerate that kind of physical contact in the sport for that situation or you don’t.

BB has a problem with the rule that he improperly attributed to Welker as a person. The league at this point thinks the rule is a good one and doesn’t want it to change. So BB directing any heat specifically towards Welker is wrong and inappropriate for BB to do. Complain to the league about the rules if you don’t like the rules.

As a die hard Pats fan your getting an all in player who give a 100 % but the hip will go out on a non contact play by week 5 an then he’ll be back for the playoff run an then limp off during your biggest gm of the yr…26 million guaranteed ha ha ha ha

I’m not sure I would have given that much money to a player who didn’t play through pain in a TWO title games. Both times he was knocked out of the game I don’t recall them saying the injury was serious. Obviously if Denver gave him that much money he wasn’t hurt too bad.

You can smell the Broncos’ desperation from here. Since you can’t fix Manning’s chokeability, the only thing left is to weaken all the rival teams and hope he can win with the real life equivalent of Madden cheat codes. Should be a hilarious season for the “Greatest Offense Ever Unless It Matters.”

Just listened to this guy in nfl network . Sounded completely ignorant . He’s clearly limited mentally and now I understand why he had so many “issues” until BB straightened him out .

He with ware are great short term additions , ward is a major major liability in coverage which is not good considering the lack of talent at the LB position . The broncos could become an elite defense this next year which I think they will with the style of play in their division but they may still be pretenders and soft bc they have major holes.

I see all in for this year before the salary catches up to them in the next year or so . Good thing to win now futures never promised .

Bronco fans complaining about the negativity…..sorry but your team was an outright embarrasment against the Seahawks and now Elway wants to buy up some more players to try and have another go at it. Your salary cap will be upside down for years to come, and don’t think Pay-a-ton Manning is going to help. Go ask Yankee fans how buying players rather than developing them and coaching them worked out lately. Good luck keeping Talib in any game that means anything.

too much money for a player that needs an extra cargo plane to bring his baggage to town..
Denver will go 10-6 next year at best and lose in the playoffs. . you cannot buy rings in this league. there’s way too many changes to teams every year to think you will be back in the same spot next year or better by adding a couple of new guys.
Houston was supposed to be a SB contender last season only to end up with the 1st pick in the draft by having the worst record. you need to build for the long run or you will just end up ruining the future of the team. desperate moves by Elway.

The broncos want to be like the Patriots, so bad , that they always have to Draft someone from that team. Too bad Broncos Talib will get hurt before you know it and keeping Welker on your team for sure won’t get another ring! He couldn’t do it for the Patriots! He’s a ginx!! They both can’t make the plays when they count!